Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

GOP Files FEC Complaint on Pederson, Short-Circuits Irony Meter

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The GOP filed a campaign finance complaint against Pederson. The complaint really isn’t the news. The complaint alleges some late and incomplete filings that were submitted or later amended; it’s nothing but an attempt to dirty up of the presumptive Democratic candidate, and not worth the ink the Star give it. What is really mind-blowingly … Read more

Bill Johnson’s Waste of Money

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I recently noticed that William "Bill" Johnson, the ‘Traditional Democrat" candidate for Congress here in CD 8, put up street signs. I also noticed they are totally inept. Take a gander: There is one simple rule for such signage. You have to be able to read the last name and the office at a glance. … Read more

Big. Brass. Clanking.

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I strongly agree with most of what Wafa Sultan says in this interview on Al Jazeera. She takes on the hypocrisy, spiritual totalitarianism, and violence within some of Islam’s leadership. While watching this, I kept thinking, "This lady is going to get herself killed!"’ You may not agree with some of what she says, but … Read more

Public Debate Footage Held Hostage to DRM

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I have some concerns about the current method the Commission is storing and distributing video footage of the Commission-sponsored candidate debates. The video of debates sponsored by a public entity, at public expense, should be absolutely free to the public for any use to which they wish to put it. Currently footage is being distributed … Read more